LORD LEVERHULME _"Dullness is so much stronger than genius because there is so much more of it, and it is better organized and more naturally cohesive_ inter se.

_So the Arctic volcano can do nothing against Arctic ice."_--SAMUEL BUTLER.
The reader may properly wonder to find the figure of Lord Leverhulme brought before the mirrors of Downing Street.
But let me explain why I introduce this industrial Triton into the society of our political minnows.
Lord Leverhulme rejected politics only when politics rejected him.

He is of that distinguished company to whom the House of Commons has turned both a deaf ear and a cold shoulder.

He failed where Mr.Walter Long succeeded, and fell where Dr.Macnamara rose.
I once asked a Cabinet Minister how it was that a man of such conspicuous quality had failed to win office.

"I really cannot tell you," he replied with complacency, "but I remember very well that the House of Commons never took to him.